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provided ; and it is declared that every one of the good religion must possess one, that they may strike and kill noxious creatures and sinners more meritoriously with it.
23. Zarmân? is the demon who makes decrepit (důspad), whom they call old age (pirih). 24. Kishmak 2 is he who makes disastrous (vazandak), - and also causes the whirlwind 3 which passes over for disturbance. 25. The demon Varenô+ is he who causes illicit intercourse, as it says thus :
Varenô the defiling (âlâi). 26. The demon Bůshasp is she who causes slothfulness; Sêg is the fiend (drūg) who causes annihilation; and the demon Niyâz is he who causes distress.
27. The demon Âz (greediness') is he who swallows everything, and when, through destitution, nothing has come he eats himself; he is that fiendishness which, although the whole wealth of the world be given up to it, does not fill up and is not satisfied; as it says, that the eye of the covetous is a noose (gamand), and in it the world is nought. 28. Půs? is the demon who makes a hoard, and
A personification of the Av. zaurva of Vend. XIX, 43 W., Yas. IX, 18 Sp., Gôs Yt. 10, Râm Yt. 16.
The reading of this name is uncertain. • The small whirlwinds, which usually precede a change of wind in India, are commonly known by the name of shaî tân, which indicates that such whirling columns of dust are popularly attributed to demoniacal agency.
• A personification of Av. varena, desire,' in an evil sense. 6 Av. Bashyăsta of Vend. XI, 28, 29, 36, 37, XVIII, 38, &c. The names of the three demons in this sentence are Persian words for 'sloth,''trouble,' and 'want.'
• Av. Âzi of Vend. XVIII, 45, 50, Yas. XVII, 46, LXVII, 22, âstâd Yt 1.
? Compare Pers. payas, 'covetous,' and piyûs, 'avarice. Půs is evidently the demon of misers, and Âz that of the selfish.
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